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20210122-GWRN-GGDLMP-Submission www.gwrn.org.au | [email protected] Submission to the proposed Greater Gariwerd Landscape Management Plan Acknowledgement of Country The Gariwerd-Wimmera Reconciliation Network acknowledges the Wotjobaluk, Jaadwa, Jadwadjali, Wergaia, Jupagalk, Djab Wurrung and Gunditjmara peoples, the Traditional Owners of Gariwerd, and support their efforts towards the full exercise of their self- determination. We are grateful to them and others for sharing their knowledge and stories in the submission documents. Through their efforts we deepen our connection to their land and develop more understanding of our shared history. We pay our respects to their elders past and present, and we hope that their efforts will help us come together with more knowledge and connection to build strong communities in the Gariwerd-Wimmera region. Table of Contents A. Executive Summary ......................................................................................................... 2 B. Four priority areas for consideration ................................................................................ 3 C. Gariwerd-Wimmera Reconciliation Network and climbing access ...................................... 4 D. Reconciliation-based considerations regarding the future Greater Gariwerd Landscape Management Plan .................................................................................................................... 4 1. Clarification of process for developing mitigation measures to allow cultural values and climbing to coexist under the Rock Climbing Decision-Making Framework .....................................................................5 2. Development of a reconciliation-led review mechanism for decisions made under the Rock Climbing decision-making framework ...........................................................................................................................5 3. Development of mechanism to allow Traditional Owners and Land managers to entrust a trusted third party to manage climbing areas ............................................................................................................7 4. Transparency around decision-making responsibilities between Parks Victoria and Traditional Owners as appropriate ...................................................................................................................................8 5. Template for rock climbing decision making should be considered for other recreational users .........9 6. Supporting the leadership of Traditional Owners in developing relationships with local communities / recreational users and encourage adaptation to proposed changes...........................................................9 E. Priority climbing locations for assessment ...................................................................... 10 A. Executive Summary The Greater Gariwerd Landscape Draft Management Plan (DMP) is a chance to work towards a management of Gariwerd that aligns with Traditional Owners’ aspirations and priorities and allows them the expression of self-determination. This plan has the potential to become a leading example of how Traditional Owners, colonial government and civil society can work together to achieve ethically sound and environmentally sustainable recreational activities in settler-colonial societies. Our vision for climbing in the Greater Gariwerd cultural landscape is for continued access to a diversity of terrains based on respectful interactions, where ultimately climbers have a deeper connection to this place through learning about Traditional Owners' culture, history and perspectives. Through respectful climbing in the landscape, we hope that climbers can positively contribute to the cultural renewal and healing of Traditional Owners. Gariwerd Wimmera Reconciliation Network (GWRN) works at the intersection of reconciliation, recreation and social and legal issues. Our work in reconciliation and climbing access has positioned us to observe the threats to reconciliation through the division and disintegration of relationships between Park managers, recreational users - in this context, rock climbers - and Traditional Owners. This includes the impacts on respect for Culture, social responsibility, and recreational user compliance of the use of a blaming focus - both of the recreational users for implied impacts and of the Traditional Owners for implied restrictions to access - rather than a cooperation, accountability and conciliation focus. This submission highlights how the plan can avoid contributing to more divisive problems and proposes cooperative management solutions in numerous ways. The submission underlines shortcomings in the clarity of the process for developing harm mitigation strategies and asks for detail around decision points for initiation of any strategies. It also highlights the lack of a stated review mechanism within the plan and encourages one to be developed with a reconciliation lens to allow the plan to adapt to new knowledge, technology and climbing practices. Understanding constraints of land managers' and Traditional Owners' limited resources and given the stated intention of the Traditional Owners to keep climbing open where possible, this submission also points out where cooperative community-based solutions and utilisation of third party established groups such as Cliffcare or a climbing peak body could be entrusted with management of some appropriate areas. Greater transparency and clarity is also proposed regarding the delineation of decision making responsibilities between Parks Victoria and Traditional Owners and, where appropriate, reasoning for climbing access decisions. The benefits of an open and collaborative approach would support building informed relationships and trust. Our submission suggests the investment in developing an effective recreational decision making and review process for rock climbing is likely to translate to other recreational activities where impacts on cultural values may be of concern. Using the same process for other recreational activities in the Gariwerd landscape may prevent a replay of the challenges 2 observed in rock climbing and provide greater equity and transparency of process for all user groups in the National Park. Finally, GWRN advocates for greater support of Traditional Owners in developing relationships with local communities and recreational users. Advantage could be found in giving joint projects and community engagement the same ‘immediate’ priority granted to other reconciliation related strategies in the plan. These improvements to the plan should allow for learning, growth and trust through shared knowledge and experience while prioritising protection and accountability and remind us all that systemic change is essential. Reconciliation and self-determination should be at the foundation of the plan and the system it helps redesign. We are optimistic about the potential of the plan to inform a system that responds to Traditional Owners’ physical, mental, emotional, economic and social needs, and allows climbing to continue in ways that support those needs. As a community, we need a management plan that supports the renewal of Traditional Owners’ cultures, and allows space to progressively permit climbing and climbing practices as the relationship between Traditional Owners and climbers develops, and as Traditional Owner aspirations and preferences evolve. B. Four priority areas for consideration 1. Clarification of process for developing mitigation measures to allow cultural values and climbing to coexist under the Rock Climbing Decision-Making Framework1 2. Development of a reconciliation-led review mechanism for decisions made under the Rock Climbing decision-making framework. 3. Development of mechanisms to address instances where Traditional Owners/Land managers may rely on a trusted third party to manage mitigation of climbing areas.2 4. Transparency around decision-making responsibilities between Parks Victoria and Traditional Owners as appropriate. The above considerations and two others are explained in more detail in Section D. 1 Parks Victoria, Rock Climbing Decision Making Framework for the Gariwerd Landscape (Parks Victoria, 2020) <https://s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/hdp.au.prod.app.vic- engage.files/8916/0500/8829/Rock_Climbing_Decision_Framework_for_the_Gariwerd_landscape_Nov_2020_ v3.pdf>. 2 Ibid 6, Management Principle 9. 3 C. Gariwerd-Wimmera Reconciliation Network and climbing access GWRN was formed by members of the rock climbing community in mid-2019 based on realisation that a critical conversation with Traditional Owners was needed in light of access disputes occurring in the Grampians National Park. We were aware that the frustration of Traditional Owners was growing and that it was time critical to start a process of listening and learning and acknowledging harm that may have resulted from recreational impacts associated with rock climbing. GWRN’s vision is for strong communities to be built through respectful relationships. Respectful relationships in the context of contemporary Australian society must recognise and give voice to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their history so that informed decisions about their land can be made by and for their communities. We aim to be a resource for the Traditional Owners of Gariwerd cultural landscape represented by the Barengi Gadjin Land Council (BGLC), Eastern Maar Aboriginal Corporation (EMAC), and Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owner Traditional Owners
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